Page 113 of Imogen

“I heard from a friend who attends the same university that he went nuts at the staff in the main office. She was working in the filing room and overheard it all. Apparently, the university are refusing to transfer his credits to another university. I guess when that happened, the one he wanted to transfer to declined his application to study there, and he doesn’t like it.”

“Great,” I grumble. “That’s all I need. Something else he can blame me for.”

“It’s not your fault.”

“I know, but he doesn’t understand that. His mum messaged me to get Maverick to put in a good word with an estate agent. They want his house on the market. And since Maddox does a lot of work getting houses ready for sale, a couple won’t take Zach on as a client. Every other estate agent that has no morals is refusing to sell it because Zach is making it difficult.”

Hope snorts. “What did you say?”

“I didn’t. I told Dad and he called Mav, and the next thing I know, Maverick had given the Armstrongs an offer they couldn’t refuse and now he owns the house. He plans to rent it out once the sale has gone through.”

“Zach isn’t going to like that.”

“Nope. He really isn’t,” I muse.

“Are you talking about Dad buying Zach’s house?” Mark asks.

“Yeah. You heard too?” I ask.

“He had it coming,” Mark states. “I should have set fire to his car with him in it. Fucker laid his hands on you and has gotten away with it.”

“You set his car on fire,” I point out.

“So?”

“And you spray-painted his house.”

“I’m not understanding why you are bringing it up.”

“Don’t forget the glitter bomb Uncle Max planted in his suit that exploded during his second police interview. Faith called me and said Beau couldn’t stop laughing when Gray walked out covered in glitter,” Hope states.

“Why are you making us out to be the bad guys?” Liam demands. “Dad said he was lucky it was glitter.”

“Wait, I thought your dad put glue in his shoes?” Mark asks.

“Yeah, but that was after he turned up at the same restaurant he was at and threw the shrimp all over him,” Liam answers.

“I thought he slapped him with a wet fish?” Mark continues.

“That was when he pretended to apologise,” Liam replies.

“Wait, so who made the remix video of him saying he’s a woman beater, a liar, then the one where he looks like he’s verbally abusing people?” Hope asks.

“That was Bailey. She felt left out the day Aiden pushed him into the lake,” Mark replies.

“Wait, when did all this happen?” I ask, utterly shocked. I only knew about the car and the spray paint. “And what video?”

“Ages ago,” Liam quickly replies.

Yeah, ages ago my arse.

Hope chuckles. “Evidently, Hayden recorded the bar incident, and then she got the footage from the woman who lives across from you. She had the assault on camera.”

“Wait, Hayden went into Mrs Langley’s?” I ask, not believing it for a second.

“Well no, I did. But then Bailey used clips to make him say some awful things, then showed clips of him losing it. It’s gone viral.”

“Guys, I told you not to get involved.”

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